UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Malmö New Stadium - Malmo Thursday 8 November 2018 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Malmö FF Group I - Matchday 4 Sarpsborg 08 FF Last updated 22/02/2019 15:28CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 13 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 Malmö FF - Sarpsborg 08 FF Thursday 8 November 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Malmö New Stadium, Malmo Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Halvorsen 87; 25/10/2018 GS Sarpsborg 08 FF - Malmö FF 1-1 Sarpsborg Vindheim 79 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Malmö FF 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 Sarpsborg 08 FF 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 Malmö FF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Malmö FF have not played against a club from their opponents' country Sarpsborg 08 FF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Sarpsborg 08 FF have not played against a club from their opponents' country 2 Malmö FF - Sarpsborg 08 FF Thursday 8 November 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Malmö New Stadium, Malmo Match background Three points separate the four teams in UEFA Europa League Group I, with Nordic rivals Malmö and Sarpsborg having each posted a win, a loss and, most recently, a draw – 1-1 in the teams' first meeting on matchday three in Norway. • The clubs both recovered from opening away defeats – Malmö at Genk (0-2) , Sarpsborg at Beşiktaş (1-3) – to record home wins on matchday two, Malmö defeating their Turkish visitors 2-0 in Sweden and Sarpsborg overcoming their Belgian opponents 3-1 in Norway. Two late goals – the first from Malmö's Andreas Vindheim, the second from Sarpsborg's Ole Jørgen Halvorsen – kept the Scandinavian duo neck and neck at the halfway point of the group stage. Previous meetings • This is new terrain for both clubs in UEFA competition as before their first meeting Sarpsborg had never previously faced Swedish opposition, nor had Malmö come up against a club from neighbouring Norway. Form guide Malmö • Swedish champions for a record 20th time in 2017, Malmö began this season's European campaign in the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round. Their bid to reach the group stage of that competition for the third time in five years was checked on the away goals rule by Hungarian champions Vidi in the third qualifying round but they secured an autumn of European participation – as Sweden's sole representatives – by prevailing in another all- Scandinavian affair against Danish title holders Midtjylland in the UEFA Europa League play-offs. Their eight qualifying matches brought four wins and four draws. • Malmö's only previous UEFA Europa League group stage involvement was in 2011/12, when they opened with a 4-1 defeat at Dutch club AZ Alkmaar and never recovered, finishing bottom of the section with just one point. • The 2-0 win against Beşiktaş ended a run of three successive home draws in Europe for Malmö. They are unbeaten in their last six continental home games, but the last time they lost – 0-5 against Paris Saint-Germain in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League – it constituted the club's heaviest home defeat in UEFA competition. Sarpsborg • Formed in 2008, Sarpsborg enjoyed the best season of their short history in 2017, finishing third in the Eliteserien and reaching the final of the Norwegian Cup. The league position secured European involvement for the first time, and they have made the most of the opportunity, progressing all the way from the first qualifying round to the group phase. • After kicking off their European debut with a 6-0 aggregate win over Iceland's ÍBV, Sarpsborg used the away goals rule to get past Switzerland's St Gallen before overcoming Rijeka of Croatia 2-1 over two legs and then seeing off Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the play-offs (3-1 home, 1-2 away). • Sarpsborg's five away fixtures in Europe have yielded two wins and three defeats. They have scored in all of those matches. Links and trivia • Malmö coach Uwe Rösler was a player and coach with Lillestrøm and has also been in charge at fellow Norwegian clubs Viking and Molde. • Vindheim has represented Norway at youth and Under-21 levels and started his career in Bergen with Brann. Other players from the Swedish side to have played in Norway are Johan Dahlin (Lyn 2006–09), Arnór Ingvi Traustason (Sandnes Ulf 2012) and Bonke Innocent (Lillestrøm 2014–17), while Sarpsborg's Harmeet Singh played for Swedish club Kalmar in 2017. • This is Malmö's tenth game in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final – a record for a Swedish club. • With one game remaining in the 2018 Allsvenskan, Malmö are currently outside the European qualifying places in fourth position, but they could climb to third and requalify for the UEFA Europa League with a home win against Elfsborg on Sunday. • Sarpsborg are one of four clubs who began their successful journey to the UEFA Europa League group stage in the first qualifying round, the others being Apollon Limassol, FC København and Rangers. They are also one of five making their debut this season in the UEFA Europa League proper, along with Akhisar, Dudelange, Jablonec and Spartak Trnava. The coaches • Born in the former East Germany, Uwe Rösler left his homeland in 1994 to play up front for Manchester City, which he did for four years, thus forming a bond with English football that has brought him back to the country to manage four different lower-league clubs. His coaching career began in Norway, with Lillestrøm, his final club as a player, and 3 Malmö FF - Sarpsborg 08 FF Thursday 8 November 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Malmö New Stadium, Malmo in June 2018 he returned to Scandinavia to become the new head coach of reigning Swedish champions Malmö. • A coaching career spent exclusively in his native Norway peaked for Geir Bakke when the Sarpsborg side he has led since January 2015 finished third in the 2017 Eliteserien to qualify for a first crack at European football and subsequently negotiated four qualifying ties to reach the UEFA Europa League group stage. Prior to joining Sarpsborg he was the assistant to Tor Ole Skullerud as Molde claimed their first Norwegian league and cup double in 2014. 4 Malmö FF - Sarpsborg 08 FF Thursday 8 November 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Malmö New Stadium, Malmo Team facts Malmö FF Formed: 1910 Nickname: Di Blåe (The Blues), Himmelsblått (The Sky Blues) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup: (1979) • European/South American Cup: (1979) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 20 (2017) Swedish Cup: 14 (1989) Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA competition 2015/16: UEFA Champions League group stage 2014/15: UEFA Champions League group stage 2013/14: third qualifying round 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 11-0: Malmö v Pezoporikos 03/10/73, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-7: Hibernian v Malmö 25/07/13, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Malmö v Paris Saint-Germain 25/11/15, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 8-0: Real Madrid v Malmö 08/12/15, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 5-0: Malmö v Shirak 29/07/98, first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-7: Hibernian v Malmö (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-4 twice, most recently v Metalist 20/10/11, group stage • Heaviest away defeat 4-0 twice, most recently v Swansea 01/08/13, third qualifying round first leg Sarpsborg 08 FF Formed: 2008 Nickname: 08 UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (latest triumph in brackets) 5 Malmö FF - Sarpsborg 08 FF Thursday 8 November 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Malmö New Stadium, Malmo None Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless otherwise indicated) 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA club competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 3-1 twice, most recently v Genk 04/10/18, UEFA Europa League group stage 2-0: Sarpsborg v ÍBV 19/07/18, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-4: ÍBV v Sarpsborg 12/07/18, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat 3-1: Beşiktaş v Sarpsborg 20/09/18, UEFA Europa League group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 3-1 twice, most recently v Genk (see above) 2-0: Sarpsborg v ÍBV (see above) • Biggest away win 0-4: ÍBV v Sarpsborg (see above) • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat 3-1: Beşiktaş v Sarpsborg (see above) 6 Malmö FF - Sarpsborg 08 FF Thursday 8 November 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Malmö New Stadium, Malmo Squad list Malmö FF Current season All-time UCL QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.